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Power Kids

R 2009 1h 13m Action Comedy List
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Four children break into a hospital to steal a heart for their sick friend.
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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed A marvel of martial arts cinema, a display of entertainment prowess and pure storytelling... Feb 15, 2014 Full Review Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ...one of those alien films oneruns across from time to time - it's half family-friendly tearjerker and half brutal kick-butt-athon. But the action choreography is predictably terrific. Rated: 80/100 Jun 16, 2010 Full Review Brian Orndorf DVDTalk.com Short, sweet, and eventually mindful of splendid action choreography, Power Kids is too disjointed to truly rouse the senses, but what it does retain in the excitement department is more than enough to pass the time. Rated: B- Jun 10, 2010 Full Review William Goss Cinematical If the idea of some moppets Muay Thai-ing their way through bad guy after bad guy sounds good to you, I struggle to think that this would disappoint. Jun 9, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Cheesy in a kind of good way. A few laughs. The final fight is cool. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member As much as I like those kids rising to fame but the movie gave me a very bad taste of how a Johnny Tri Nguyen can got his ass kicked by a group of kids?! Tony Jaa beat him up in Tom Yum Goong is satisfying as hell but this is just pathetic really feel sorry for him in this one. No wonder the film never took off both domestically and internationally. The movie is good but then Johnny came along and steal the whole movie make me feel like I really don't care about those kids anymore I want more of him! Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Slow beginning, but it picks up when the kids team up to subdue a rampaging, drunk Aussie giant . Their Muay Thai instructor/guardian should be proud, instead he whips them. The story really picks up as terrorists take over the hospital where the donor heart for their youngest sibling is. The other four, of course, go in to get it. Johnny Nguyen (Clash, The Rebel) plays a sinister leader. It's a fun movie aside from the whipping. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Story intense for small children to watch, and a little unrealistic, but enjoyable action. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Loved it! Family friendly Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member The last time I ended up watching a Martial Art movie from Thailand I suffered through the abysmal nonsense of Ong Bak 3. Now while Power kids is more watchable than Ong Bak 3, it's nothing from what you would expect from the usual Thailand Martial Art movie. Power Kids (or 5 Heart Heroes in Thai) is about four children who sneak into a terrorist controlled hospital to steal a heart to transplant for the 5th child who is dying in a different hospital. Now the story of the movie is much more believable and interesting than most of the other Thailand Martial Art movies I've seen. Yet I still have a hard time believing a group of heavily armed terrorists can't take out four kids who know Muay Thai. Also it has some filler which is surprising because this movie is barely 80 minutes which probably gives you a pretty good idea of how little potential the story has in this movie to be any good. Now there definitely some touching moments since these are kids we're talking about going into a hospital filled with heavily armed terrorists to retrieve a heart for a dying kid, but the movie relies to heavily on them being kids which means you wanting them to live isn't as powerful as it could have been. The Martial Art in this movie will receive mix reaction for sure as I got mix feeling watching this. On one hand we are seeing kids doing Martial Art and they look convincing doing it. Though the down side to this it's really hard to believe that these kids can beat adults with guns who clearly look stronger than them, the first two time we see it's reasonable because they use objects and fight against other kids, but afterwards it believability wears off when they go against adults. One thing that'll sure get parents mad is that these kids are actually hit and shot at in this movie, while it makes the movie more exciting parents on the other hand won't be enjoying it. Power Kids is not a bad watch for a Martial Art movie from Thailand, while the Mauy Thai doesn't look as impressive as it in did in the original Ong Bak and it's pretty much the same thing here. It's not a bad watch, if you got some to kill go right ahead into this movie, but if you want something more serious than look else where. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Four children break into a hospital to steal a heart for their sick friend.
Director
Krissanapong Rachata
Producer
Prachya Pinkaew, Panna Rittikrai, Sukanya Vongsthapat
Screenwriter
Waratthana Weerayawattana, Piyaros Thongdee, Nonthakorn Thaweesuk
Production Co
Sahamongkol Film International
Rating
R (Brief Language|Violence)
Genre
Action, Comedy
Original Language
Thai
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 9, 2011
Runtime
1h 13m
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